Coast to Coast
Hannah Grace has the #1 book in the country with Daydream, her third Maple Hills college hockey romance. And while first-week print unit sales flattened out like an upended hockey stick, or maybe as though a Zamboni smoothed them over, it’s safe to say she’s scored a bestseller hat trick.
World of Wonder
B.B. Alston lands at #5 on our children’s fiction list with Amari and the Despicable Wonders, third in his Supernatural Investigations middle grade fantasy series. Our starred review described the series launch, 2021’s Amari and the Night Brothers, this way: “Alston thrusts his intrepid heroine into a setting packed with magic, mythical creatures, and danger. Amari, a Black girl with limited means, confronts privilege and prejudice even while delving into a world of wonder, humor, and adventure, making this a sure-to-please winner.” The three books have sold a combined 275K
print copies.
Small Plates
Published just in time for back to school, Feeding Littles Lunches by Megan McNamee, a registered dietician nutritionist, and Judy Delaware, an occupational therapist and feeding specialist, lands at #2 on our trade paperback list. Caregivers who chafe at social media images of “gorgeous lunch boxes filled with every color of the rainbow,” the authors write, will feel seen: “If a lunch idea calls for cooked pasta, it assumes that you already cooked pasta for another meal and are using leftovers for lunch. We are trying to make your life easier, not harder!”
NEW & NOTABLE
At War with Ourselves
H.R. McMaster
#3 Hardcover Nonfiction
In the latest Trump administration postmortem, McMaster recounts his 13 months as national security adviser. “Disparate groups used a variety of tactics to undermine trust between the president and me,” he writes. “I knew when I took the job that my shelf life would be limited.”
The Dark Wives
Ann Cleeves
#12 Hardcover Fiction
“The murder of an employee at a home for troubled youth triggers a search for a missing girl [in] Cleeves’s forceful 11th Vera Stanhope mystery,” per our review. “Multiple narrators and a core cast of keenly rendered characters lend the tale dimension while furthering the series arc.”
